Maura+Morales

SUMMARY: Maura Morales, age 24, died May 8, 1981 after an abortion performed at Women's Care Center in Miami, FL.

Twenty-four-year-old Maura Mariza Morales was eight weeks pregnant when she went to Woman's Care Center for a safe and legal abortion on May 8, 1981.

When she was in the recovery room, her heart went into spontaneous ventricular fibrillation -- irregular heartbeats not capable of effectively pumping blood.

Maura was taken to a hospital, but died that day.

Maura was the fourth woman to die at the same facility. The others were Shirley Payne, Myrta Baptiste, and Ruth Montero.

 Sources:
 * Florida Certificate of Death # 81-043232;
 * "Fourth Woman Dies After Abortion At Miami Clinic," //The Miami Herald//, Jan. 5, 1983, 1D;
 * "Cluster of Abortion Deaths at a Single Facility," Kafrissen, Grimes, Hogue, Sacks, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 68:3, September 1986, 387-389
 * "Miami police tie 4th death to abortions," //The Times-Picayune//, Jan. 6, 1983
 * "Miami Abortion Clinic Closed Down," //The Ocala Star-Banner//, Jan. 11, 1983



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